TeX, LaTeX and Friends - 2012-06-13

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Q: ! I can't find file `pgflibrarytikz*.code.tex'

I can compile the following LaTeX: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{arrows,backgrounds,plotmarks} \begin{document} Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. \end{document} However, the process fails if I include any of the following lines: \usetik...

tikz-pgf pgfplots tikz-external tikz-styles

Too Localised?

Can someone tell me how to get LaTeX to display ' as a straight quote rather than curved?

9:07 AM

Never mind, I see this is covered on the site.

Patrick Gundlach

This is most likely a duplicate:

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Q: How to use special symbols in LaTeX, such as @, ~

I wonder how I can typeset in LaTeX this text: @Data.test~ I mean, I want to have in the end "To display the data we use token @Data.test~." I searched symbols documentation, but only found \textasciitilde, which was not what I wanted. And no command for using @ in the text except \MVAt, but it ...

but I can't find the/a "parent"

found it.

9:26 AM

@JosephWright I agree

@FaheemMitha \textquotesingle (TS1 encoding) or equivalently textcomp package

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10:30 AM

@egreg: 3.6k to go. :)

And rep cap already? The day is still starting for me. :P

BTW, happy St. Anthony's day! :)

@PauloCereda Well but you're usually out of votes by this time ;-)

@StephanLehmke I still have some votes. :D I'm late. :)

I'm considering to implement a voting bot. :)

Go go bot!

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Q: How can I make sure my remote workers are not slacking off?

I have a company (about 6 programmers, and 14 workers in total). As I am going to expand my company, I am thinking about hiring remote workers for programming jobs and get them to be involved in the main development. But one thing that I have problem with is that, how can I make sure my remoter ...

professionalism productivity remote

"I'm slacking off this very second" - Best thread comment. :P

11:13 AM

@PauloCereda Of course. :)

@PauloCereda No holiday for me, just finished some exams.

@egreg Neither for me. :( But there will be bread tonight during the mass. :)

11:54 AM

Hi, there is some small script to ease creation of dtx files github.com/michal-h21/packdtx any comments about (grammar/code/templates/anything) are welcomed

@michalh21 How nice! :) I'll take a look. :)

12:35 PM

yeh over half my points today come from tikz

@DavidCarlisle Thief, thief, we hates it, we hates it forever ...

@AndrewStacey don't be nasty or we'll be horrible to you in your interrogation^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Interview

Patrick Gundlach

The next thing will be that @David gets into LuaTeX and starts answering these questions. Then I am without a job...

@DavidCarlisle I'm not worried about that - I have enough sockpuppets that all the genuine questions will be drowned out.

Patrick Gundlach

@AndrewStacey what would we do without our sockpuppets.

12:43 PM

@PatrickGundlach Work?

@PatrickGundlach well unfortunately lua is sufficiently different from TeX that you probably can't answer all luatex questions by redefining a random internal command to add \expandafter

Patrick Gundlach

@AndrewStacey good point, now I remember what I should do.

Anyway, my excuse today is that the scrolling on my new computer is upside-down to what I'm used to, so by the time I figure that out to get to the latest TikZ question, David's gotten there first and answered it.

@PatrickGundlach I'm waiting for the photocopier to finish emailing me a load of scripts ...

Patrick Gundlach

@AndrewStacey I am pretty sure you can change that in the preferences :)

@AndrewStacey Hows the new computer, BTW? I'll probably take the same path in a month or two. :)

12:45 PM

@AndrewStacey changed direction for the ipod generation, finger going down means move the text down, not the viewport?

@DavidCarlisle Something like that. Every time I try to work out what the "correct" method should be, my brain starts hurting. It's alright when it's the trackpad, but it is a bit confusing when it is the mouse as well.

@PatrickGundlach 'Spect so. I'm trying to get used to its little ways, and only force it to my way of thinking when it is clearly wrong.

@PauloCereda Slowly getting used to it. Life got a lot easier when I discovered homebrew.

@AndrewStacey Ah! I was looking for some feedback from a homebrew user! Does it work nicely? I'm thinking of MacPorts, but I was wondering how homebrew or Rudix would be. :)

@PauloCereda Homebrew works fine for me (or did last time I used it)

@PauloCereda I still remember the days when it was fink ... So far my experiences of homebrew are positive. I'm up to 23 installs, though some of those are via dependencies. So far emacs, urxvt, mutt, msmtp, bazaar, all working well together.

@JosephWright @AndrewStacey nice to hear. :) I'm considering to try Rudix, as it seems to be non intrusive.

Patrick Gundlach

12:52 PM

@PauloCereda I am perfectly happy with MacPorts

@PatrickGundlach A friend of mine suggested me MacPorts. :) The problem with me is that I want to know the innards of my system, so I usually try to know what MacPorts do behind the scenes. :P

@PauloCereda Not heard of Rudix. So far, my main hassle is keyboards. I thought I'd gotten a nice keyboard layout, then plugged in an external keyboard only for the whole thing to go wrong again. Bleugh.

Patrick Gundlach

@PauloCereda You can do that with macport of course, there is nothing magic going on

No emacs in rudix.

@AndrewStacey Ouch. :) Usually Mac is nice when pluging an external keyboard. Maybe it's the customized bindings. :)

Patrick Gundlach

12:57 PM

@AndrewStacey what is this "emacs" thing everyone is talking about. Is it something new?

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@PauloCereda I expect so. It'd be nice to be able to do one layout that ruled them all. (When you do get your Mac, do a nice TeX-keyboard icon for custom TeX layouts)

@AndrewStacey See, it's perfect! /ducks, @DavidCarlisle will summon his army through C-X emacs-army

@AndrewStacey I'll ask for suggestions. :)

@PatrickGundlach Rumour has it that it's something David scribbled in the margin of a book one day but there wasn't room to write the whole program.

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Patrick Gundlach

@AndrewStacey One day I wrote a norton commander clone for emacs. That was fun!

Ah, finished scanning the scripts. Next job: program copy machine to do the grading as well.

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\expandafter\beer\grades

Patrick Gundlach

1:01 PM

I am not sure if it still works:

levana.de/emacs/ec/ec.el

Patrick Gundlach

1:24 PM

7103 points to go for Paulo's credit card number :)

@PatrickGundlach Yay! I trying my best to reach my credit card number too. :)

Patrick Gundlach

@PauloCereda you can get mine until you reach 20k

@PatrickGundlach awww <3

Won't happen any soon. :) It's easier for egreg to reack 200k before I reach 20k. :)

Patrick Gundlach

I'ts one of these:

5492542268427890
5370167417276977
5519178696590006
5213965793380714
5394263969450565
5454733061143984
5576261877443268
5414936366215691
5135307274628987
5317700347979439

(mediakey.dk/~cc/wp-dyn/credit-card-number-generator.php)

@PatrickGundlach Oh. :(

Patrick Gundlach

1:49 PM

@PauloCereda I hope I didn't hurt your feelings...

@PatrickGundlach <3

2:02 PM

@DavidCarlisle : Thanks

@PatrickGundlach: I first thought my new Mac would be sponsored by speedata. :)

Patrick Gundlach

@PauloCereda if I had some money on the company account... you have to wait a few months.

@PatrickGundlach Uh-oh. :)

Patrick Gundlach

I am currently working on several projects - they will be paid soon (hopefully)

Right now I am working on a 1000 pages catalog with break discs :)

@PatrickGundlach OMG! :D

Patrick Gundlach

2:10 PM

that is really crazy, yes.

user image

Made with pure Lua(TeX)

@PatrickGundlach Awesome!

Patrick Gundlach

There are 1000 similar pages. Really boring :)

@PatrickGundlach LOL

But it's Alfa Romeo! :) Well, I'd prefer a Mercedes-Benz. :P

Patrick Gundlach

I am currently generating Mercedes. You have to wait a few seconds

Ooh I want one, please. :)

I'd say one of the most common cars here is Volkswagen Gol (I'm not sure Europe has it).

Patrick Gundlach

2:20 PM

@PauloCereda for you, your Mercedes (...break disks)

user image

The name is broken, but it is for mercedes, believe me:)

@PatrickGundlach Yay! Maybe I can make one with all these pieces. :)

@PatrickGundlach You are selling me a Merce, not fair. :P

Patrick Gundlach

Here's the rest: DES

@PatrickGundlach Danke! <3

@PatrickGundlach Wow, impressive! I also negotiated with Mr. Strauß after the AutoMechanika 2010. Way to go!

Patrick Gundlach

@StephanLehmke All pages look the same, so it's not really interesting.

2:30 PM

@PatrickGundlach Well that's the case for most automotive catalogs. The devil's in the details, as usual. But Mr. Strauß insisted they weren't doing a printed catalog for this year's AutoMechanika :-)

Patrick Gundlach

@StephanLehmke I am not sure it will be printed :)

@PatrickGundlach Ok so that's the part he didn't say ;-)

@PatrickGundlach At least that's the "living" disproof of all rumors that LuaTeX has stability problems...

Patrick Gundlach

@StephanLehmke I had a bad memory leak in my code, so I had to use a (Amazon EC2) machine with 17 gig RAM :)

@PatrickGundlach WOw!

Patrick Gundlach

@PauloCereda Now I use smaller chunks :)

2:36 PM

@PatrickGundlach How much time does it take to compile? :)

Patrick Gundlach

@PauloCereda way too much. around 20 minutes with lo-res images. But this is highly-non-optimized with stupid algorithms (this is why the memory leak has such a dramatic effect). I typeset literally millions of tables

@egreg I've deleted the comment. I've misread your code apparently.

@percusse Which comment to which answer?

@egreg Heh, I'm fast enough then :) Nevermind, it was about the caption question.

@percusse It works!

2:42 PM

@egreg Indeed, I thought you modified the the space after the figure number, but that was a misread.

@percusse I've added the picture. :)

@egreg Now it's fool-proof :-)

@PatrickGundlach Wow! Out of curiosity, what's the final size of the PDF?

Patrick Gundlach

@PauloCereda The low-res is (compressed with Acrobat) only 20 megs, but the high res is more than two gig

@PatrickGundlach Cool! :)

3:06 PM

@PatrickGundlach That's thousands of tables per page. Impressive.

Patrick Gundlach

@StephanLehmke Most of them are discarded

@StephanLehmke three pass algorithm for generating tables, two runs and many, many discarded tables

3:28 PM

The awkard moment when you see a friend of yours typing his password with caps lock turned on and, after telling him the key was activated, he said, "That's ok, my password has all caps on". o.O

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4:40 PM

@PauloCereda This of course reminds about President Skroob and the "secret combination" for accessing Druidia.

@egreg LOL I think I remember it! :) One two three four five. :)

President Skroob: Great. Now we can take every last breath of fresh air from Planet Druidia. What's the combination?
Colonel Sandurz: 1-2-3-4-5
President Skroob: 1-2-3-4-5?
Colonel Sandurz: Yes!
President Skroob: That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage.

@egreg LOL

5:22 PM

@PauloCereda I see that you know the fundamentals of cinema history. Now, what famous movie ends with the lines "Doctor, I'll buy you a drink." "Only one!"? (Asking for "Nobody's perfect" would be too easy.)

@egreg I have no idea. :)

@PauloCereda A milestone in movie history: Stagecoach. I hope you know the director and the main actor.

@egreg John Wayne! My uncles keeps telling about that movie! :D

Now, the director... :P

5:39 PM

@PauloCereda My darling Clementine, The searchers, The quiet man, She wore a yellow ribbon, The man who shot Liberty Valance, Fort Apache, …

@egreg Ford?!

John Ford!

@PauloCereda Now it was too easy!

@egreg My bad. :) I know only a little about movies. :)

@PauloCereda "My name is John Ford and I am a director of westerns," he allegedly presented himself. :)

@egreg Indeed! :)

@egreg: My turn: "- 'Meeting is adjourned!' - 'It is?' ". :)

Hint: related to Skroob. :)

5:56 PM

@PauloCereda dailymotion.com/video/…

@egreg :D

I love the way Brooks says "It is?" :P

@PauloCereda NON! (This is too easy!)

@egreg Really?! I have no idea. :)

@PauloCereda It's the only word pronounced in the movie! And by Marcel Marceau. In Mel Brook's Silent movie. With Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise. With cameos by Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Marcel Marceau, Liza Minnelli, Anne Bancroft and Paul Newman as themselves

@egreg Really?! Wow, I missed that movie! Added to my ToWatch list. :)

6:07 PM

@PauloCereda Not Mel Brooks's best movie, but funny.

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Patrick Gundlach

7:33 PM

2:0 :)

8:18 PM

Go Netherlands! :D

<3

Patrick Gundlach

8:40 PM

@Paulo Netherlands gone, I'd say

@PatrickGundlach Indeed. :(

Patrick Gundlach

Like 1974 :)

:P

Patrick Gundlach

Germany–Netherlands football rivalry

The football rivalry between Germany and the Netherlands is one of the few longstanding football rivalries at a national level. Beginning in 1974 when the Dutch lost the 1974 FIFA World Cup to West Germany in the final (though deeply rooted in Dutch anti-German sentiment due to the occupation of the Netherlands by Germany during the Second World War) the rivalry between the two nations has become one of the best known international football rivalries in the world. Both belong to the strongest football nations of the world, and have met a total of 37 times (of which only 9 matches were ...

9:02 PM

@PatrickGundlach ooh historical reasons. :)

The same with Brazil vs. Uruguay. :)

Patrick Gundlach

@PauloCereda I have to admit that I am not a football fan and I really don't care about winning/losing. I like to watch good games (sometimes).

:)

When I host a TUG conference here, I'll organize a football match. Of course, there will be a Lua script which will generate the team line-ups. :)

Patrick Gundlach

doing a backup, starting a virtual machine, downloading a DVD image and recording a TV program at the same time is not good for laptop performance.

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@PatrickGundlach LOL

9:17 PM

@PatrickGundlach Same here (on Linux). I find it really fascinating that after all these years of unixoid systems being the standard for file servers i/o is slowing down a unixoid system so much.

Patrick Gundlach

@StephanLehmke The worst part was starting the virtual machine while doing a backup. I really need a SSD :)

Whatever. I can start 4 TeX processes each of which has 4GB size and runs half an hour in parallel without noticing much more than a solid blue in the process monitor, but when I copy a couple GB from a DVD on the HD, my mouse pointer begins to slug.

@StephanLehmke IMHO since Linux became a viable Windows replacement, publishers tried to make it more user-friendly. I was a happy Slack user for a long time and it always excelled at performance at the cost of being a spartan distro. I think targeting a general purpose niche, like Canonical does, is dangerous (the same happens with Fedora with the bleeding edge stuff). I envy the times when my 24" monitor had nothing more than a huge black screen from my Slackware in init 3. :)

9:35 PM

@PauloCereda Software bloat is one thing (which comes in waves, btw; every time a system is too bloated to be useful they will invent then next lean and modern successor which will then start to bloat again), but it doesn't explain why 2-3 processes competing for the HD will bring a modern operating system down.

@StephanLehmke Ah yes. :) IO is indeed a serious bottleneck.

Even the GPU processing doesn't ease the IO, on the contrary, it might make it worse. :(

@StephanLehmke Another possibility is the way the process scheduling is managed.

I still see several processes employing round robin.

@PauloCereda For sure. The real culprit are processes which do mostly I/O. Several TeX processes which of course also move large amounts of data on the HD are never a problem, but two "big" cp's in parallel and the load average skyrockets...

@StephanLehmke Indeed! :)

9:50 PM

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Q: OTF fonts with Miktex

I tried this %!TEX TS-program = xelatex %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{xunicode} \usepackage{xltxtra} \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Brill-Roman} \begin{document} This is a text. \textit{Here goes!} \end{document} And I got th...

We must have a canonical answer: anyone?

@werner, sigh thanks I'll delete that comment. I think maybe I should start wearing glasses:-)

@DavidCarlisle :)

Ah: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/23254/…

@JosephWright dcolumn would have put in a phantom separator on its own, so there:-)

@DavidCarlisle siunitx does if you use the dcolumn strategy, where numbers are not parsed

@DavidCarlisle The S column is not really intended for integers: the whole point is for aligning decimal material (ideally, all with the same number of digits in the decimal part)

10:08 PM

@JosephWright I know, but I thought I'd brag anyway:-)

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11:50 PM

@egreg: Back from the mass. :) Vos estis sal terrae, vos estis lux mundi. :)

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